Efficiency-enabling practices can help generate greater profitability, but too much of a good thing can lower operational flexibility. But what risks do firms take when efficiency overshadows flexibility?

For manufacturers, it’s time to get moving. And improving, through a shift from supply chains to supply chain networks. What’s more, manufacturers can take some immediate steps to begin shifting toward a network supply chain approach now.

While it may be tempting to equate high levels of employee activity with success, doing so misses the factors that drive long-term, sustainable innovation. Here are some ways managers can embrace a more expansive view of productivity in a hybrid world.

Innovation can only happen when space is held for it & in a manufacturing environment that has to include time on machines. A choice has to be made between running their plants at full capacity & reserving time for innovation.

50 to 70 percent of ransomware attacks are aimed at small and medium-sized companies, And changes in business practices, accelerated by the pandemic, have left small businesses even more vulnerable.

Automation shouldn’t decrease jobs; it should increase efficiencies. The move toward automation, in most cases, simplifies monotonous, physical, and quantitative tasks where there is no room for any interpretation.

Companies around the world regularly suffer from quality lapses in design, production, and assembly that can sabotage success. From overzealous cost cutting to poor supplier management programs. What can be done?

When people navigate big changes, one thing that can help is what developmental psychologists call “transitional objects.” They provide the necessary grounding to guide someone through uncertainty.

This time last year, in a matter of a few weeks, we saw almost everyone on this planet change the way they live or work (not that we need reminding). The pandemic has become an accelerant to automation as companies look for a way forward and being better prepared.

This is a constant struggle within organisations. Sales view is, “we just get a new customer and it seems like the business does everything to lose them” & from inside is “do these sales guys have any understanding of what they are asking us to do?”